The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-04
THE covnTRY.s GROWTH

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what Pretsetioa HAs Dose to Iacrsass -
ffoa Year to Yesr.
Built mp towns and cities
Kept American money in America.
Provided abundance and cheapness.
Given US commercial Independence.
Doubled our foreign trade since
1860.
Provided steady work for willing
workers. k
Universally expanded the useful in
dusrries.
Increased manufactures five fold in
twenty years
Vastly improved the condition Of
farm laborers.
Conserved both individual and Ma
ional Interests.
Fed and clad Americans with Amer
lean products.
Lowered many articles below the
European prices.
Unlocked the capital awaiting profit
able investment.
Applied our own labor to our own
natural resources.
Created diversity of employment for
skilled labor.
Reduced the price on every manu-
featured article.
Enormously increased the general
wealth of the country.
Turned capital into ten thousand
channels of enterprise.
Raised the average Of wages to
double that paid in Europe.
Put ninety per cent. of the annual
product into the pocket of labor.
Presented labor the key to knowl-
edge and sek-improvement
Contributed to the prosperity. not Of
the few. but of the many.
Enhanced the value of farming lands
by promoting manufactures.
Aided in the distribution of wealth
by encouraging competition.
Fortified artificial advantages, such
as those arising from inventions.
Made the United States the greatest
workshop on the face of the earth.
Increased revenue and commerce in
greater ratio than population.
Improved the quality as well as in
creased the quantity of manufactures.
Lowered the cost of living more than
twenty-five per cent. since 1876.
Diminished profits, but at the same
time enlarged the volume of business.
Rendered possible the payment Of
living wages for getting out raw ma
terial.
Increased the production and won
derfuily reduced the price of steel
rails.
Established an equilibrium between
agriculture, commerce and manufact-
ure.
Provided market at home that
takes seven-eighths of the farmers
products.
Steadily increased the wages Of
skilled and unskilled labor in the last
ten years.
Armed the Government for a sue
cessful war of defense against the Sc
ceding South.
Put the vast volume of oHr currency
into constant and general use among
ourselves.
Benefited the farmer by preventing
his customers from becoming his CON-
petitOrs.
Saved 5000, 600 workers from the
results of direct competition with cheap
foreign labor.
Caused American labor to be more
productive. per man, than that of any
other land.
Made q market for products a: the
very door of the factory and the gate
of the farm.
Cheapened the cost of Transports
ton. by stimulating the investment Of
capital in railroads.
Diverted the energies of the people
into new pursuits and opened new
avenues to employment.
Promoted the expectation of manu-
features by cheapening them, while
still maintaining good wages
Provided occupation, or the means
of living. for more than 8.OQQO0O i'm
migrants.
Blessed labor with the ABILITY "a
create demand for more labor by be-
ing able to buy what it produces.
Prevented an inundation Of foreign
goods like that which swept away our
manufacturing industries in 1917.
DeveloDed to an approximate state
of perfection those industries requir-
ing high degree Of skill in the work
men.
So fostered our wooden industries
that they make four-6sths of all the
wooden goods used by American peo-
pie.
Opened to the industrious poor of
other lands the gateway to the largest
for lettering their con-
dition.
Enabled American silk manufact-
cries to grow and prosper. and make
the best dress goods produced in the
world to-day.
Brought the consumption of manu.
commodities up to twice rs
much per capita a. any other nation
consumes.
Guarded farmers from competition
with India wheat produced by laborers
at one-eighth Of what is paid in the
United States
Enabled the United States to reduce
its debt $1,5O0. 900. coo since 1865
while all other great nations have
largely increased their debt
Trebled the number of hands en-